The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants submitted a complaint to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on July 3 to address Israel’s attacks on the agricultural sector, farmers, and livestock breeders in border villages.
In a statement issued on Friday, the Ministry said the complaint included “official statistics on the number of fires caused by Israel’s use of white phosphorus, amounting to 683 fires.
In addition, the total area of completely burned lands “exceeded 2,100 acres of land from October 8 until mid-March of this year, while the area of damaged forest and agricultural lands reached 6,000 acres.”
The Ministry also noted that “Israel’s aggression was a flagrant violation of Article 55 of Additional Protocol I (1977) to the Geneva Conventions (1949), which states that the natural environment shall be protected from widespread, long-term, and severe damage during hostilities.”
Furthermore, it called on the UNSC to “condemn Israel for its direct, deliberate, and repeated targeting of civilians and the natural environment in Lebanon, and urged it to ensure that Israel does not go unpunished for these crimes, as failure to condemn it would give it a free hand to continue its unrestraint aggression.”
